Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last couple of years. They seem to have paid off. "The illusion that Harrods' customers were all duchesses was always bunko anyway," says a titled store executive. Mahogany displays were painted a brilliant cerise, truly modern furniture was stocked next to the Louis XV and Chippendale. But foremost among efforts to rejuvenate itself is the store's "Way In" boutique, where the Rolling Stones belt out background music. Since it opened last year, customers spent an astonishing $2.2 million on such way-out paraphernalia as see-through dresses and ties with tinkling jingle bells...
...Gaulle's other traditional supporters felt much the same way. French women, who vote first and foremost for stability, again turned out in force to cast their ballots for the general's men. The conservatives who have something to conserve-big businessmen, the landowners, investors-remained true Gaullists. De Gaulle's forces picked up backlash support from farmers, small businessmen and the professional class, nearly all of whom reacted against the riots and strikes...
Harvard's heavyweight crew, top contender to represent the United States in the Olympics, recovered from a poor start to edge the Vesper Boat Club, its foremost challenger, in a 2000-meter race Saturday in Pelham Manor...
Perhaps the foremost collector of film trivia is Harry Purvis, a Canadian writer whose catalogue which appears irregularly in TV Guide, includes the following...
Recognizing that trend, President Johnson in February created a Cabinet Committee on Price Stability to delve into industries "which are a persistent source of inflationary pressure." Foremost among these was construction. The President acted after his Council of Economic Advisers warned that building costs were getting out of step with the economy "by a substantial margin." Construction wages have risen faster than those of other industrial workers, complained the CEA, "while improvement in practices and techniques has lagged seriously...